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Article: A few good men.(abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Henry Brown Blackwell)
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- March 1, 2009
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It would be easy to think that only women supported suffrage and that every man was against it. Some men, however, played important roles in advocating for suffrage. The three men highlighted here were as dedicated as any woman, demonstrating that there were indeed a few good men willing to lend their names and reputations to the cause.
William Lloyd Garrison is usually remembered as an abolitionist and founder of the antislavery newspaper The Liberator. He also supported suffrage, using his newspaper to campaign for equal rights for women. He attended the fifth Women's Rights Convention in Philadelphia in 1854 and participated in ...